Help HDMI on MoboPlayer to TV

[hellopwntchu]

I've tried playing AVI video files on MoboPlayer and connecting through HDMI to my TV. The quality isn't very good; e.g. there's green and red distortions on people's skin. Is the problem with the HDMI cable or the phone? Do you recommend other video players?

Also, SRT subtitles only work when I put it on my SD card but not when I view it on my network's server.

Can someone confirm that only class 2,4,6 SD cards work on the Triumph?

 

[Allaneato]

I have questions about the video playing features too. Can anyone help? I do some education work around sexual violence and it would be terrific if I could develop a list of "bookmarks" (video file name and position pointer (not the beginning) to jump to and start play).

It's taking about 5 minutes per GB to copy to the SD card. It would be nice if this could be faster. I have about 10 GB in my library of video I'd like to work with for this education work. Speeds? Brands of cards?

Is Moboplayer a "must try"? for the android player SW?

Seems the micro HDMI cables are a bit variable in quality. Other experiences?

I can't seek in my mpeg video. It freezes w & w/o sw decode. Details: (General
Complete name : C:\TV\OprahSurvivorShows\FullShowDVD\title1.mpg
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 1.47 GiB
Duration : 42mn 7s
Overall bit rate : 4 984 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=14
Duration : 42mn 7s
Bit rate : 4 475 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.432
Stream size : 1.32 GiB (90%)

Audio
ID : 189 (0xBD)-128 (0x80)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Muxing mode : DVD-Video
Duration : 42mn 7s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 116 MiB (8%)

 

[mundane24]

try QQPlayer! free from the market.

 

[KryptoNyte]

I've tried playing AVI video files on MoboPlayer and connecting through HDMI to my TV. The quality isn't very good; e.g. there's green and red distortions on people's skin. Is the problem with the HDMI cable or the phone? Do you recommend other video players?

Also, SRT subtitles only work when I put it on my SD card but not when I view it on my network's server.

Can someone confirm that only class 2,4,6 SD cards work on the Triumph?

It sounds like it could either be a problem with the HDMI cable, or possibly the source video itself and some kind of bug in the player/Android for HDMI output. I don't have my HDMI cable yet for the phone, but I'll test this as soon as it comes in.

I had a period of a couple months where I tested quite a few different players from the market, but what I found was quite simple (generally speaking); if the video plays well in the stock player (Movies), it's able to use the phone's hardware acceleration. If the video simply won't play in the stock player, it's unlikely that another player will be capable of hardware acceleration outside the stock player's abilities. So, I use the stock player for video. I use the "QuickPic" app to browse for videos rather than the stock "Gallery" as it provides and clear listing of filenames.

I've used anything from a class 4 to class 10 micro-SD card with this device. All worked fine, however, at times I have found that pulling the micro-SD card and plugging a micro-SD adapter directly into the computer can move some files faster it seems. Remember, moving large files with nand based flash memory (or even old hard drives) will usually mean faster speeds, while moving large amounts of small files usually yields slower transfer speeds.

 

[KryptoNyte]

I have questions about the video playing features too. Can anyone help? I do some education work around sexual violence and it would be terrific if I could develop a list of "bookmarks" (video file name and position pointer (not the beginning) to jump to and start play).

First of all, thank you for your service in the community.

I spent a couple hours this morning with some sample video virtually identical to yours. With some video software and encoding, I was able to achieve everything that you are trying to do, with one (unfortunate) exception. The final video file that I was using is 60 seconds in length, and I had inserted chapter markers at various points throughout the 60 seconds, but I am simply not able to find an Android video player that will allow you to jump forward or back to these chapter markers! They just don't exist!

One person mentioned that breaking up the file into multiple files would probably be the only solution. This could get a little time consuming.

If you are still here in the forum seeking a solution to this, please post here, I have a couple other suggestions for you that may be much better solutions for your specific situation.

 

[magohn]

I've tried playing AVI video files on MoboPlayer and connecting through HDMI to my TV. The quality isn't very good; e.g. there's green and red distortions on people's skin. Is the problem with the HDMI cable or the phone? Do you recommend other video players?

Also, SRT subtitles only work when I put it on my SD card but not when I view it on my network's server.

Can someone confirm that only class 2,4,6 SD cards work on the Triumph?

What you have to remember is that your taking video that looks fine on a 4" screen (device) and displaying it on a 32" or larger TV. The resolution is going to look completely different....

 

[Allaneato]

First of all, thank you for your service in the community.

Thanks. What I have are 6 documentary videos and the idea to break them up into a list of about 50-100 "scenes"--short 1-10 minute segments showing different things. Then I'd knit them together dynamically into a presentation and discussion based on the audience interest and responses.

For various reasons I think this might be more effective than a 60 minutes showing and subsequent discussion.

I spent a couple hours this morning with some sample video virtually identical to yours. With some video software and encoding, I was able to achieve everything that you are trying to do, with one (unfortunate) exception. The final video file that I was using is 60 seconds in length, and I had inserted chapter markers at various points throughout the 60 seconds, but I am simply not able to find an Android video player that will allow you to jump forward or back to these chapter markers! They just don't exist!

Good to know. As I understand this, a "chapter mark" is a DVD feature. So you were loading an ISO file of the DVD to the MT? There's no DVD drive of course!

I can use Avidemux/DVDFlix/DVDAuthor/ImgBurn to edit, encode, author a little if needed. I don't at all like all the work to cut it all up into separate files and author chapter marks between everything on a single DVD. It wouldn't all fit either.

The key feature I have is in "Media Player Classic Home Cinema": create "favorites" and check "save position". It's way fast which is important: no hunting up the file and fast forwarding to 1:12:48. Just select the favorite and it plays in 2 seconds from there.

So I have the option of a laptop with all this. Except I don't own a laptop. It just looked for a while like the MT could do all this instead.

 

[KryptoNyte]

Actually, I was testing your situation with an mpeg2 file that I had recorded from Time Warner's unencrypted QAM (High Def Television basically).

Yes, Chapter markers are a DVD feature, however they can also be embedded in the mpeg2 files, and then transcoded to mp4 maintaining the chapter markers. Again, I think that if you use the MT, your only option is to break up the video into small video files to be played individually, as Android can't seem to deal with the chapter markers at this time.

I think your best option at this point is the notebook computer. It seems to me that you're looking at creating pauses in the video to speak with your audience for a bit, then restart the video. You're leaving my [relatively small] realm of knowledge here a bit, but that sounds like a perfect job for Powerpoint - breaking the videos up into small segments, and then embedding the segments into powerpoint slides, allowing you to advance the show at your own pace.